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Jim Bramlett
Apr 24, 2004
Dear friends:
More dead troops in Iraq today, the latest two with a suicide bomber.
We wonder at the savagery. We wonder how people can be so cruel.
We wonder how Saddam could have caused the death of millions of his own people -- all fellow Muslims. Some died in a lengthy, stupid war with Iran. Some he massacred himself and put in mass graves. Some he gassed with chemical weapons of mass destruction. His own people!
We wonder how Saddam could have killed his own son-in-law.
We wonder how his sons, Uday and Qusay, could have also have killed fellow Iraqis so mercilessly. They actually put some into a human shedder, feet first. (Ouch.)
All the above had no religious motive and outwardly had nothing to do with Islam; however, demon spirits released through Islam and operating through human vanity and greed have been the root cause. That is why it seems so insane and irrational. Some believe modern-day Iraq is the location of Satan's throne on earth. It is no accident that Islamists are the main ones causing death and destruction all over the world, and even against themselves.
It is hard to understand these things. But it helps to understand when we read what God Himself said about their ancestors, the Babylonians:
"They are a cruel and violent nation... They are notorious for their cruelty.... They are a fierce people, more fierce than wolves at dusk.... all of them bent on violence" (Habukkuk 1:6-8, NLT).
No doubt, there are many, many nice Iraqis, but as a people, it appears they have never changed from how God described them some 2,500 years ago. That same spiritual stronghold is over Iraq.
Think about that as we hear of more coalition casualties. And let us keep praying for our troops, and God's protection. As you can, pray for them by name. If not by name, then by unit. Or any way you can.
Remember the 30th Infantry Brigade, a North Carolina National Guard unit just recently arrived and deployed near Tikrit, north of Baghdad. My father was in the 30th (then Division) in World War II and landed at Normandy. I spoke with the 30th commanding general just before they left the U.S. recently.
Remember U.S. Marine Lt. Col. Kurtis E. Lang.
Remember the son of friend Larry Hauer, en route to Iraq.
Remember my neighbor, Larry Hinkle, who is Baghdad.
Jim
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